NEWS

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ongoing verification of refugees and asylum seekers has unearthed 7,000 ghosts in Nakivale refugee settlement in western Uganda. According to the Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Hillary Onek, of the figure of 16,000 refugees and asylum seekers that some unscrupulous government officials …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Bank projects Sub-Saharan Africa to garner an economic growth of 3.1 percent in 2018, and increase of over one percent from 2017. Recent data in the Africa Economic Update released Wednesday afternoon point to a moderate strengthening of economic growth in early 2018. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have tasked the army to explain the legal basis and sustainability of crime preventers in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). The MPs sitting on the Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs were on Tuesday interfacing with officials from the Ministry …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Police Force is grappling with increased cases of self-kidnap across the country, especially among students and youths. In the last one month, more than 20 cases of kidnap have been reported with six of these discovered to have been self-kidnaps. According to …

Peter Elap, a boda boda rider in Gulu is in trouble for faking his own kidnap to con his boss Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have slapped Elap with the charges of demanding property with menace and giving false information to a person employed in public service contrary to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A bill that will guide how property owned by cohabiting couples can be shared, upon separation, is now in its final stages. The draft was developed out of the controversial clauses which were deleted from the marriage and divorce bill, according to Vastina Rukimirana …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University has capitulated to demands by students and suspended planned fees increments for several undergraduate courses. The suspension comes on the heel of a strike that started on Monday. The suspension came after an all-day meeting on Wednesday between university management led …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The First Lady and Minister for Education and Sports Janet Kataaha Museveni will on Thursday be at Entebbe International Airport to receive Uganda’s team that participated at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia. Lamex Omara Apita, the Commissioner in-charge of Physical Education …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government legal team led by the Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana has been probed at-length over emerging information that Parliament’s decision to entrench the Presidential term limits is not reflected in the Constitutional Amendment Act 2017. Parliament in December last year passed the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is planning to borrow USD 412 million (1.5 trillion Shillings) to construct secondary schools, upgrade health centres and run rural electrification projects. This will include USD 200 million (734 billion Shillings) to be borrowed from the World Bank for upgrading health centre IIs to …